I saw this on Fox News. They, of course, reported that one of the attacks was the result of a “homocide bomber.” WTF do they think the other ones were?

mcgJuly 7, 2005

May I suggest that we henceforth adopt the convention that we subtract the suicide bombers from any count of the dead? Because it doesn’t seem sensible to count them as casualties when they aren’t worth the protoplasm their skin holds in.

ScottyJuly 8, 2005

Tony B,

I confused, at whom you are directing your anger. Fox is merely using a new convention of refering to Suicide bombers as Homicide bombers to connote a more appropriate negativity to those bombers who kill themselves for their cause. This is more than a mere gammatical redundancy that you point out and I honestly don’t mind the less than artful use of the English language. The meaning is clear enough and the convention is well known. Learn to cannel your energy Grasshopper.